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Top union leader says hitting the streets will save democracy
November 8, 2017NEA Vice President Becky Pringle, is challenging the nation’s progressives to hit the streets for democracy. She opened her address to Common Cause’s Blueprint for a Great Democracy conference by quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
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Labor ramps up campaign against Trump tax cut for the rich
November 8, 2017Led by the AFL-CIO, more unions are speaking out against the Republicans’ tax cut for the rich, saying the middle class – and union members – will wind up footing the bill.
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Jeremy Corbyn rises, Theresa May stumbles as Brexit divorce drama continues
November 8, 2017With the French sharpening their knives, the Tories in disarray, the Irish demanding answers, and 17 months to go, the matter is making for good theater.
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Small Texas town devastated by mass shooting
November 6, 2017A man dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, massacring 26 people and wounding 20 others in a matter...
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The Soviet past we never knew
November 6, 2017The real Russian Revolution had, at its heart, a liberting potential and a Marxism rooted in real-world practice that still holds lessons a century later.
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